For a Radical Higher Education: After Postmodernism

by Richard Taylor, Jean Barr, Tom Steele

Taylor (U. of Leeds), Barr and Steele (both U. of Glasgow) argue that current challenges faced by higher education are leading to the effective incorporation of the academic world into the arena of corporate capital and its ideology. Radical educators must counter this trend, and reassert a progressive and revitalized commitment to a higher education which is critical, skeptical, and encourages open and vigorous contestation of knowledge and values. They address these issues from several political and social theory; philosophy; cultural studies; contemporary history; and socialist, feminist, and libertarian theories. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

192 pages, Hardcover

First published July 28, 2002

About the author

Richard Taylor is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non-fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. A former dean and teacher in the Governor's Scholars Program, he was selected as Distinguished Professor at Kentucky State University in 1992. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Al Smith Creative Writing Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard's Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.